SET-UP TEAM

As we prepare for the festival a number of tasks will require the help of motivated and enthusiastic volunteers. Your duties may include moving equipment from warehouse to festival site, construct equipment, install banners and signage, flags, beverage stations, green bins, table and chairs etc. You are important to festival operations as your help will ensure the festival is ready to open on time.

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VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION ASSISTANT

Your responsibility is to ensure volunteers are signed in and assigned their location in a prompt and courteous manner. You will also register new volunteers into the database. The volunteer center manager will require your assistant to provide volunteers with T-shirts, name badges and give the necessary information to help them get started as quickly as possible. All registration assistants will help to keep the area clean, replenish volunteer refreshments and follow the instructions of the volunteer center manager as necessary. Your inclination to greet guests and volunteers warmly and have a good attitude throughout your shift is required. Your excellent customer service skills will be an advantage in this position.

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SET-UP TEAM

As we prepare for the festival a number of tasks will require the help of motivated and enthusiastic volunteers. Your duties may include moving equipment from warehouse to festival site, construct equipment, install banners and signage, flags, beverage stations, green bins, table and chairs etc. You are important to festival operations as your help will ensure the festival is ready to open on time.

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SET-UP TEAM

As we prepare for the festival a number of tasks will require the help of motivated and enthusiastic volunteers. Your duties may include moving equipment from warehouse to festival site, construct equipment, install banners and signage, flags, beverage stations, green bins, table and chairs etc. You are important to festival operations as your help will ensure the festival is ready to open on time.

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COMPOST CAT LIEUTENANTS

Compost Cats and SfS will serve as Green Team lieutenants before, during, and after the festival, reporting directly to Sustainability Coordinator Chet Phillips. Prior to the festival starting, Compost Cats/SfS will assist with planning all sustainability and waste management related aspects of the festival and setting up green stations. During the festival, Compost Cats/SfS will staff green stations and supervise other green team volunteers, ensuring that compostable, recyclable, and landfill materials are properly sorted and delivered to larger receptacles. After the festival's conclusion, Compost Cats/SfS will coordinate with other festival staff and City of Tucson Environmental Services to ensure that all waste materials make it to their final destinations and that organic materials are converted into quality soil amendments.Compost Cats Lieutenants will also serve as green team ambassadors to the public, politely answering questions about the festival's sustainability practices. You will be standing and walking for most of the shift.

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Ice Distribution

This position is a standing/walking position. Volunteers will be in charge of selling ice to food vendors throughout the festival. You will be in charge of handling receipts and ice sales. All of the beverage booths located at the festival will periodically be in need of Ice. It will be your job to take ice to each booth that is in need of ice. Get your walking shoes handy, no need for the gym with this position but you will undoubtedly have fun doing it.

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KITCHEN ASSISTANT

Tucson Meet Yourself is known for food, and the Cultural Kitchen is a wonderful example of why this is true. The Kitchen brings together community cooks, and a few chefs, to demonstrate and offer sample dishes that are meaningful to them, as well as connected to our region. It is not an iron chef space but a well-organized, less formal venue that invites festival attendees to learn and taste uncommon foods firsthand. Volunteers are needed to help engage the audience to come into the tent, assuring the cooking area is clean and tidy, preparing sample plates and serving them. This is a great opportunity for those with a culinary passion as you will also connect with the cooks and eat great food! You are likely to be standing for most of the shift.

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BEVERAGE BOOTH TEAM

Assist with sales of beverage. Organize and keep an attractive, tidy and clean booth. Monitor and record merchandise sales, restock as and when needed and prepare to handover to incoming volunteers. You will enthusiastically provide excellent customer service as you serve festival guests, and after a sale, encourage donations to support the festival. If you have strong customer service skills, retail or banking background and are familiar with inventory control, we strongly encourage you to apply. However these skills are not essential. You are likely to be standing for most of the shift.

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Festival Information Booth

Festival Information Booth is one of the hubs of information for the Tucson Meet Yourself Festival and the Southwest Folklife Alliance. If you like providing information and creating a welcoming environment for festival attendees this is the job for you! Good customer service and communication skills are essential to this volunteer role. The Festival Information Booth Volunteers will provide accurate information and excellent customer service to include but not be limited to: directions, festival vendors, performers, locations, performance times, exhibit, sponsorship information, and festival promotional materials. You will be standing or seated. You will be working with one other SFA Board Member, TMY Staff or Seasoned Volunteer. You will may be required to do some heavy lifting.Good customer service and communication skills are essential to this volunteer role.

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SUSTAINABILITY (GREEN) TEAM

Sustainability (green team) Volunteers will help promote Tucson Meet Yourself's minimal waste initiative and keep the festival site clean and safe. Your assistance will help to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills and increase the level of recycle and compost. Having the best advantage to see the festival activities you will travel the assigned area to ensure trash is promptly cleared and removed to its proper bin (landfill, compost or recycling) and you will also share your eco-education with our festival guests. You will be standing or walking for most of your shift and may be required to lift waste bags.

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Donation Collection

Donations are collected throughout the festival. Along with the sales of our merchandise and beverages, this income allows the festival to continue to be FREE to the public. Volunteers assisting with donation collections are an important addition to our team. Donation Collectors will also be assigned to entryways to serve as Welcome Ambassadors, to hand our programs and collect donations as people arrive to the festival. You will need to be enthusiastic, outgoing and willing to mingle with the crowds and continuously move around the festival grounds. Your shift will have an assignment to one of the three festival stages. You will coordinate with the stage Emcee during announcements to collect donations after performances. You will be standing or walking for most of the shift

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SUSTAINABILITY (GREEN) TEAM

Sustainability (green team) Volunteers will help promote Tucson Meet Yourself's minimal waste initiative and keep the festival site clean and safe. Your assistance will help to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills and increase the level of recycle and compost. Having the best advantage to see the festival activities you will travel the assigned area to ensure trash is promptly cleared and removed to its proper bin (landfill, compost or recycling) and you will also share your eco-education with our festival guests. You will be standing or walking for most of your shift and may be required to lift waste bags.

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SUSTAINABILITY (GREEN) TEAM

Sustainability (green team) Volunteers will help promote Tucson Meet Yourself's minimal waste initiative and keep the festival site clean and safe. Your assistance will help to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills and increase the level of recycle and compost. Having the best advantage to see the festival activities you will travel the assigned area to ensure trash is promptly cleared and removed to its proper bin (landfill, compost or recycling) and you will also share your eco-education with our festival guests. You will be standing or walking for most of your shift and may be required to lift waste bags.

X

BEVERAGE BOOTH TEAM

Assist with sales of beverage. Organize and keep an attractive, tidy and clean booth. Monitor and record merchandise sales, restock as and when needed and prepare to handover to incoming volunteers. You will enthusiastically provide excellent customer service as you serve festival guests, and after a sale, encourage donations to support the festival. If you have strong customer service skills, retail or banking background and are familiar with inventory control, we strongly encourage you to apply. However these skills are not essential. You are likely to be standing for most of the shift.

X

COMPOST CAT LIEUTENANTS

Compost Cats and SfS will serve as Green Team lieutenants before, during, and after the festival, reporting directly to Sustainability Coordinator Chet Phillips. Prior to the festival starting, Compost Cats/SfS will assist with planning all sustainability and waste management related aspects of the festival and setting up green stations. During the festival, Compost Cats/SfS will staff green stations and supervise other green team volunteers, ensuring that compostable, recyclable, and landfill materials are properly sorted and delivered to larger receptacles. After the festival's conclusion, Compost Cats/SfS will coordinate with other festival staff and City of Tucson Environmental Services to ensure that all waste materials make it to their final destinations and that organic materials are converted into quality soil amendments.Compost Cats Lieutenants will also serve as green team ambassadors to the public, politely answering questions about the festival's sustainability practices. You will be standing and walking for most of the shift.

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Donation Collection

Donations are collected throughout the festival. Along with the sales of our merchandise and beverages, this income allows the festival to continue to be FREE to the public. Volunteers assisting with donation collections are an important addition to our team. Donation Collectors will also be assigned to entryways to serve as Welcome Ambassadors, to hand our programs and collect donations as people arrive to the festival. You will need to be enthusiastic, outgoing and willing to mingle with the crowds and continuously move around the festival grounds. Your shift will have an assignment to one of the three festival stages. You will coordinate with the stage Emcee during announcements to collect donations after performances. You will be standing or walking for most of the shift

X

KITCHEN ASSISTANT

Tucson Meet Yourself is known for food, and the Cultural Kitchen is a wonderful example of why this is true. The Kitchen brings together community cooks, and a few chefs, to demonstrate and offer sample dishes that are meaningful to them, as well as connected to our region. It is not an iron chef space but a well-organized, less formal venue that invites festival attendees to learn and taste uncommon foods firsthand. Volunteers are needed to help engage the audience to come into the tent, assuring the cooking area is clean and tidy, preparing sample plates and serving them. This is a great opportunity for those with a culinary passion as you will also connect with the cooks and eat great food! You are likely to be standing for most of the shift.

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MERCHANDISE ASSISTANT

Merchandise sales help us to keep the festival free. Volunteers will assist with TMY T-shirt sales, organize and keep an attractive and tidy booth display, monitor and record all sales. You will enthusiastically provide excellent customer service as you serve festival guests and encourage after sale donations to support the festival. We urge you to apply for this position if you have strong customer service skills and retail experience. However, your ability to serve our guests with a good attitude and friendly personality will be essential.You may be standing for most of your shift.

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STAGE ASSISTANT

Stage Assistants are needed to help organize the order and flow of stage performers and assist with issues that arise surrounding the stage area. Your responsibilities will be to ensure a clean and safe stage environment, assist stage engineer, performers, artists, and festival goers as required, including following the procedure for lost children and lost property. Your willingness to follow instructions will be appreciated as you may also be asked to assist with hanging banners, light rigs, test sound and position microphones and move chairs. You may be standing for most of the shift.

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BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTION TEAM

Volunteers are needed to support the needs of TMY Beverage Booths, stage personnel and volunteer stations. Your duties will include stocking TMY Beverage Booths with Water and Soda before and during the festival. You will also check in periodically with stage personnel and the volunteer registration center to identify water and ice needs around the festival area. Strong, trustworthy, independent people will be suitable for this position. You will be lifting, walking, and standing for most of your shift.

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Folk Arts Assistant

Festival folk artists require interested and willing volunteers to help with folk arts hospitality, set up, clean up and pack up, and to participate as needed in demonstrations and supporting traditional artists and their displays. You may also act as participant during demonstrations to explain the basics of a tradition to passing festival attendees. Your keen interest in folk arts will be an advantage for this position. You may be standing or walking around for most of the shift.

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Ice Distribution

This position is a standing/walking position. Volunteers will be in charge of selling ice to food vendors throughout the festival. You will be in charge of handling receipts and ice sales. All of the beverage booths located at the festival will periodically be in need of Ice. It will be your job to take ice to each booth that is in need of ice. Get your walking shoes handy, no need for the gym with this position but you will undoubtedly have fun doing it.

X

SUSTAINABILITY (GREEN) TEAM

Sustainability (green team) Volunteers will help promote Tucson Meet Yourself's minimal waste initiative and keep the festival site clean and safe. Your assistance will help to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills and increase the level of recycle and compost. Having the best advantage to see the festival activities you will travel the assigned area to ensure trash is promptly cleared and removed to its proper bin (landfill, compost or recycling) and you will also share your eco-education with our festival guests. You will be standing or walking for most of your shift and may be required to lift waste bags.

X

Ice Distribution

This position is a standing/walking position. Volunteers will be in charge of selling ice to food vendors throughout the festival. You will be in charge of handling receipts and ice sales. All of the beverage booths located at the festival will periodically be in need of Ice. It will be your job to take ice to each booth that is in need of ice. Get your walking shoes handy, no need for the gym with this position but you will undoubtedly have fun doing it.

X

BEVERAGE BOOTH TEAM

Assist with sales of beverage. Organize and keep an attractive, tidy and clean booth. Monitor and record merchandise sales, restock as and when needed and prepare to handover to incoming volunteers. You will enthusiastically provide excellent customer service as you serve festival guests, and after a sale, encourage donations to support the festival. If you have strong customer service skills, retail or banking background and are familiar with inventory control, we strongly encourage you to apply. However these skills are not essential. You are likely to be standing for most of the shift.

X

Donation Collection

Donations are collected throughout the festival. Along with the sales of our merchandise and beverages, this income allows the festival to continue to be FREE to the public. Volunteers assisting with donation collections are an important addition to our team. Donation Collectors will also be assigned to entryways to serve as Welcome Ambassadors, to hand our programs and collect donations as people arrive to the festival. You will need to be enthusiastic, outgoing and willing to mingle with the crowds and continuously move around the festival grounds. Your shift will have an assignment to one of the three festival stages. You will coordinate with the stage Emcee during announcements to collect donations after performances. You will be standing or walking for most of the shift

X

Folk Arts Assistant

Festival folk artists require interested and willing volunteers to help with folk arts hospitality, set up, clean up and pack up, and to participate as needed in demonstrations and supporting traditional artists and their displays. You may also act as participant during demonstrations to explain the basics of a tradition to passing festival attendees. Your keen interest in folk arts will be an advantage for this position. You may be standing or walking around for most of the shift.

X

SUSTAINABILITY (GREEN) TEAM

Sustainability (green team) Volunteers will help promote Tucson Meet Yourself's minimal waste initiative and keep the festival site clean and safe. Your assistance will help to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills and increase the level of recycle and compost. Having the best advantage to see the festival activities you will travel the assigned area to ensure trash is promptly cleared and removed to its proper bin (landfill, compost or recycling) and you will also share your eco-education with our festival guests. You will be standing or walking for most of your shift and may be required to lift waste bags.

X

VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION ASSISTANT

Your responsibility is to ensure volunteers are signed in and assigned their location in a prompt and courteous manner. You will also register new volunteers into the database. The volunteer center manager will require your assistant to provide volunteers with T-shirts, name badges and give the necessary information to help them get started as quickly as possible. All registration assistants will help to keep the area clean, replenish volunteer refreshments and follow the instructions of the volunteer center manager as necessary. Your inclination to greet guests and volunteers warmly and have a good attitude throughout your shift is required. Your excellent customer service skills will be an advantage in this position.

X

BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTION TEAM

Volunteers are needed to support the needs of TMY Beverage Booths, stage personnel and volunteer stations. Your duties will include stocking TMY Beverage Booths with Water and Soda before and during the festival. You will also check in periodically with stage personnel and the volunteer registration center to identify water and ice needs around the festival area. Strong, trustworthy, independent people will be suitable for this position. You will be lifting, walking, and standing for most of your shift.

X

Folk Arts Assistant

Festival folk artists require interested and willing volunteers to help with folk arts hospitality, set up, clean up and pack up, and to participate as needed in demonstrations and supporting traditional artists and their displays. You may also act as participant during demonstrations to explain the basics of a tradition to passing festival attendees. Your keen interest in folk arts will be an advantage for this position. You may be standing or walking around for most of the shift.

X

Ice Distribution

This position is a standing/walking position. Volunteers will be in charge of selling ice to food vendors throughout the festival. You will be in charge of handling receipts and ice sales. All of the beverage booths located at the festival will periodically be in need of Ice. It will be your job to take ice to each booth that is in need of ice. Get your walking shoes handy, no need for the gym with this position but you will undoubtedly have fun doing it.

X

SUSTAINABILITY (GREEN) TEAM

Sustainability (green team) Volunteers will help promote Tucson Meet Yourself's minimal waste initiative and keep the festival site clean and safe. Your assistance will help to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills and increase the level of recycle and compost. Having the best advantage to see the festival activities you will travel the assigned area to ensure trash is promptly cleared and removed to its proper bin (landfill, compost or recycling) and you will also share your eco-education with our festival guests. You will be standing or walking for most of your shift and may be required to lift waste bags.

X

Donation Collection

Donations are collected throughout the festival. Along with the sales of our merchandise and beverages, this income allows the festival to continue to be FREE to the public. Volunteers assisting with donation collections are an important addition to our team. Donation Collectors will also be assigned to entryways to serve as Welcome Ambassadors, to hand our programs and collect donations as people arrive to the festival. You will need to be enthusiastic, outgoing and willing to mingle with the crowds and continuously move around the festival grounds. Your shift will have an assignment to one of the three festival stages. You will coordinate with the stage Emcee during announcements to collect donations after performances. You will be standing or walking for most of the shift

X

BEVERAGE BOOTH TEAM

Assist with sales of beverage. Organize and keep an attractive, tidy and clean booth. Monitor and record merchandise sales, restock as and when needed and prepare to handover to incoming volunteers. You will enthusiastically provide excellent customer service as you serve festival guests, and after a sale, encourage donations to support the festival. If you have strong customer service skills, retail or banking background and are familiar with inventory control, we strongly encourage you to apply. However these skills are not essential. You are likely to be standing for most of the shift.

X

COMPOST CAT LIEUTENANTS

Compost Cats and SfS will serve as Green Team lieutenants before, during, and after the festival, reporting directly to Sustainability Coordinator Chet Phillips. Prior to the festival starting, Compost Cats/SfS will assist with planning all sustainability and waste management related aspects of the festival and setting up green stations. During the festival, Compost Cats/SfS will staff green stations and supervise other green team volunteers, ensuring that compostable, recyclable, and landfill materials are properly sorted and delivered to larger receptacles. After the festival's conclusion, Compost Cats/SfS will coordinate with other festival staff and City of Tucson Environmental Services to ensure that all waste materials make it to their final destinations and that organic materials are converted into quality soil amendments.Compost Cats Lieutenants will also serve as green team ambassadors to the public, politely answering questions about the festival's sustainability practices. You will be standing and walking for most of the shift.

X

Donation Collection

Donations are collected throughout the festival. Along with the sales of our merchandise and beverages, this income allows the festival to continue to be FREE to the public. Volunteers assisting with donation collections are an important addition to our team. Donation Collectors will also be assigned to entryways to serve as Welcome Ambassadors, to hand our programs and collect donations as people arrive to the festival. You will need to be enthusiastic, outgoing and willing to mingle with the crowds and continuously move around the festival grounds. Your shift will have an assignment to one of the three festival stages. You will coordinate with the stage Emcee during announcements to collect donations after performances. You will be standing or walking for most of the shift

X

BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTION TEAM

Volunteers are needed to support the needs of TMY Beverage Booths, stage personnel and volunteer stations. Your duties will include stocking TMY Beverage Booths with Water and Soda before and during the festival. You will also check in periodically with stage personnel and the volunteer registration center to identify water and ice needs around the festival area. Strong, trustworthy, independent people will be suitable for this position. You will be lifting, walking, and standing for most of your shift.

X

Ice Distribution

This position is a standing/walking position. Volunteers will be in charge of selling ice to food vendors throughout the festival. You will be in charge of handling receipts and ice sales. All of the beverage booths located at the festival will periodically be in need of Ice. It will be your job to take ice to each booth that is in need of ice. Get your walking shoes handy, no need for the gym with this position but you will undoubtedly have fun doing it.

SUSTAINABILITY (GREEN) TEAM

Sustainability (green team) Volunteers will help promote Tucson Meet Yourself's minimal waste initiative and keep the festival site clean and safe. Your assistance will help to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills and increase the level of recycle and compost. Having the best advantage to see the festival activities you will travel the assigned area to ensure trash is promptly cleared and removed to its proper bin (landfill, compost or recycling) and you will also share your eco-education with our festival guests. You will be standing or walking for most of your shift and may be required to lift waste bags.

X

COMPOST CAT LIEUTENANTS

Compost Cats and SfS will serve as Green Team lieutenants before, during, and after the festival, reporting directly to Sustainability Coordinator Chet Phillips. Prior to the festival starting, Compost Cats/SfS will assist with planning all sustainability and waste management related aspects of the festival and setting up green stations. During the festival, Compost Cats/SfS will staff green stations and supervise other green team volunteers, ensuring that compostable, recyclable, and landfill materials are properly sorted and delivered to larger receptacles. After the festival's conclusion, Compost Cats/SfS will coordinate with other festival staff and City of Tucson Environmental Services to ensure that all waste materials make it to their final destinations and that organic materials are converted into quality soil amendments.Compost Cats Lieutenants will also serve as green team ambassadors to the public, politely answering questions about the festival's sustainability practices. You will be standing and walking for most of the shift.

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POST FESTIVAL TEAM

Your support is needed to ensure all festival equipment is returned to our warehouse. Strong, willing, able and enthusiastic volunteers are required to remove and stack beverage cases, signs, banners, chairs, table, tents, wires, waste containers and other equipment.Your duties will also include packing equipment into vans and unpacking into warehouse, clearing mats, chairs and tables to designated locations for pick up, and removing bagged waste to dumpsters. This position will require you to be on your feet for most of the shift.*Please also consider signing up for the Set Up Team - similar duties that happen before the festival starts.

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Volunteer Waiver Form (scroll down and click "I agree" to continue)

Volunteer releases and forever discharges the Tucson Meet Yourself Festival and all sponsoring organizations, from any responsibility, personal liability, or claims of loss or damage arising out of or in conjunction with participation in the Tucson Meet Yourself Festival. The Tucson Meet Yourself Festival is not responsible for any injury sustained by volunteers, performers, patrons or guests. Volunteers store and carry personal property at their own risk. Volunteers also waive their right to photographic images as the property of Tucson Meet Yourself.